Philippine Energy Secretary Jericho Petilla says it may take six weeks before the first typhoon-hit towns get their electric power back.   Speaking at Cebu airport Wednesday night, Petilla said many transmission lines had been toppled and power plants damaged from Typhoon Haiyan. Petilla said that in the hard-hit coastal city of Tacloban, order needed to be restored "because if there's no peace and ord ...

Despite receiving grants from government of India for controlling transmission and distribution losses, Kashmir and Jammu have failed to show any notable improvement in controlling the losses. The transmission and distribution losses was highest (65.78 percent) for 2011-12, (60.99) percent for 2010-11 and around (59.72) percent for last fiscal. The sources in PDD said that state has even failed to meet the ...

The November 26 Mumbai terror attack has stalled plans to form an inter-connected electricity grid among South Asian nations. India has shelved a proposal to establish 220 kilovolt (KV) links with Pakistan after the Mumbai outrage that killed 183 people, which the Indian government strongly claims was orchestrated by Pakistan-based terror groups. India intended to import 500MW of electricity from Pakistan t ...

Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide additional $12m as loan to finance a cross-border electricity supply initiative between Bangladesh and India. With this additional support, the lender came up with a total of $112m for the $199m project called the “SASEC Bangladesh–India Electrical Grid Interconnection Project.” The fresh funding will meet the shortage of money required for the project. To this effe ...

Inspectors have refused to hand report on Electricity of Vietnam violations to police. The Government Inspectorate, whose inspectors recently indicted the state-owned Electricity of Vietnam for investing in completely unrelated businesses, has refused to share their report with the police saying that requires government permission.  Deputy chief inspector Ngo Van Khanh said at a press conference in Hanoi on ...

Alstom T&D India will supply a power transformer package for Nabinagar Power Generating Com Ltd' (NPGCL) super thermal power project located in Bihar. The project is part of a bulk tender which has been set up to accelerate the pace of thermal capacity addition. This order, worth approximately Rs 105.5 crore (14 million), covers design, engineering, manufacture, supply, testing, erection and commissioni ...

CLARK ELECTRIC Distribution Corp. (CEDC), a unit of Manila Electric Co. (Meralco), has sought regulatory approval of a new distribution rate for next year.In a notice of public hearing published on Saturday, the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) said CEDC has sought authorization for its maximum average price for regulatory year 2014 and the corresponding average distribution rate of P0.8462 per kilowatt-h ...

Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) is powering up Pulau Besar Island with the installation of an overhead transmission line stretching along the Straits of Malacca. TNB vice president (transmission) Datuk Rozimi Remeli said the installation of the overhead transmission line would not only function to supply electricity, but also as an attractive tourism product for the State. "This is a new concept not only focus ...

China, Asia’s largest solar market, plans to add more generation projects in regions where the electricity can be distributed to customers who live nearby. The government intends to expand the total capacity of such projects to 20 gigawatts by 2015, Wu Xinxiong, head of the National Energy Administration, said in a speech posted on the agency’s website. That compares with just 2 gigawatts at the end of last ...

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